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Mary Fraser, “Policing the Home Front, 1914-1918: The Control of the British Population at War” (Routledge, 2018)
Mary Fraser
Policing the Home Front, 1914-1918
The Control of the British Population at War
Routledge, 2018

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 26, 2020 Mark Klobas

When Britain went to war in 1914, policemen throughout Great Britain found themselves called upon to perform an ever-increasing range of new tasks that reflected the expanded power of the British state in wartime. In Policing the Home Front, 1914-1918: The Control of the British Population at War (Routledge, 2018),... Read More
Stanley D. M. Carpenter, “Southern Gambit: Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown” (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
Stanley D. M. Carpenter
Southern Gambit
Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society May 22, 2020 Scott Lipkowitz

Charles Lord Cornwallis’s campaign through the southern American colonies came to an ignominious close on October 19, 1781, on an open field outside Yorktown, Virginia. At approximately noon, Cornwallis’s beleaguered soldiers, exhausted and low on provisions, emerged from behind their fortifications, laid down their arms, and delivered the earl’s sword... Read More
Le’Trice D. Donaldson, “Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920” (SIUP, 2020)
Le’Trice D. Donaldson
Duty Beyond the Battlefield
African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920
Southern Illinois University Press, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society April 28, 2020 Isabel Machado

In her new book Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2020), Le’Trice D. Donaldson investigates how African American soldiers used their military service to challenge white notions of an African American second-class citizenry and forged a new... Read More
Why Did the Allies Win World War II?

Why Did the Allies Win World War II?

New Books Network, 2020

Arguing HistoryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network April 27, 2020 Charles Coutinho and Jeremy Black

Why did the Allies win World War II? In the this podcast of Arguing History, Professor of History Emeritus at Exeter University, Jeremy Black and Dr. Charles Coutinho of the Royal Historical Society, discuss the the respective roles of military resources vs. fighting quality in the Second World War. One... Read More
Kevin Miller, “Fight Fight” (Braveship Books, 2018)
Kevin Miller
Fight Fight

Braveship Books, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Politics & Society April 27, 2020 Lawrence McCarren

In this interview we discuss Fight Fight (Braveship Books, 2018), book 3 of the Raven One series.  In Fight Fight, former aviator Kevin Miller explores the next big fight in the South China Seas when errors and miscalculations on the grandest scale drive the world’s greatest maritime powers into conflict.... Read More
Jeremy Black, “Military Strategy: A Global History” (Yale UP, 2020)
Jeremy Black
Military Strategy
A Global History
Yale University Press, 2020

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network April 24, 2020 Crawford Gribben

Jeremy Black, professor of history at Exeter University, is one of the most insightful historians of military strategy from early modernity to the present day. In his most recent book, Military Strategy: A Global History (Yale University Press, 2020), he sets out to demonstrate the ways in which strategic thinking... Read More
Pauline Shanks Kaurin, “On Obedience: Contrasting Philosophies for the Military, Citizenry, and Community” (Naval Institute Press, 2020)
Pauline Shanks Kaurin
On Obedience
Contrasting Philosophies for the Military, Citizenry, and Community
Naval Institute Press, 2020

New Books in LawNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network April 22, 2020 Scott Lipkowitz

Obedience is integral to the military, to society, and to communities. To bring individuals together to work cohesively and successfully towards a common goal, be it seizing an objective on the battlefield, creating an enduring political or social project, or simply running a local soup kitchen, obedience must be present.... Read More
Alexander Watson, “The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands” (Basic Books, 2020)
Alexander Watson
The Fortress
The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
Basic Books, 2020

New Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network April 6, 2020 Charles Coutinho

The opposing powers had already suffered casualties on a scale previously unimaginable by October 1914. On both the Western and Eastern fronts elaborate war plans lay in ruins and had been discarded in favour of desperate improvisation. In the West this soon resulted in the remorseless world of the trenches;... Read More

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